1. Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore is a Bengali actress, who later shifted to the Hindi film industry, who was born on 8th December, 1944. Apart from being an actress, she stood as a member of Indian Film Censor Board for seven years. She was also chosen as UNICEF Goodwill ambassador from India. On the other hand, she was one of the jury members of Cannes Film Festival, 2009. She was recognized by the Government of India with the third highest civilian award of India, Padma Bhushan. She was familiar with her screen name Begum Ayesha Sultana. She is related to Rabindranath Tagore from her parental ancestors. She debuted her film career with under the direction of Satyajit Ray in the movie Apur Sansar, which was released in 1959. After the release, she took ...
Age:
79
Gender:
Female
Age:
79
Gender:
Female
2. Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company was auctioned, her father died, and she assumed the financial responsibility by becoming an actress, first in Marathi and later in Hindi cinema, but in acting, she did not click. Later she surprised everyone with one of her solo number (Aayega Aanewaala) from the movie Mahal released in 1949. The song was screened on Madhubala...
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
Date of Death:
06-02-2022
Age:
94
Gender:
Female
3. Tanuja Mukherjee
Tanuja is a popular Indian actress, who is also mother to Kajol and Tanisha Mukherjee, two well-known actresses in the film fraternity. She was born on the 23rd of September, in 1943. She has been most popularly known for her roles in movies like Baharein Phir Bhi Aayengi. The movie has an interesting plot of a reporter who gets thrown out of job on him exposing dangerous conditions at the work place. After a while he gets reemployed by the daughter of the deceased in the incident. The daughter seems to be more interested in the reporter than what concerns just journalism. She is unaware of the romantic relation between her younger sister and the reporter. The role of the younger sister is played by Tanuja. This movie released in 1966....
Age:
80
Gender:
Female
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4. Laxmikant Pyarelal
Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarela l Ramprasad Sharma, popularly known as Laxmikant-Pyarelal in the music industry, were at the zenith of their profession during the 70s and 80s. Ek Do Teen and Jumma Chumma were the top charters during the late 80s. Laxmikant was born on 3rd November 1937 and Pyarelal on 3rd September 1940. Starting their careers in orchestra, this duo frequently did ghosting for music directors. While Laxmikant got to learn violin, Pyarelal imbibed music skills. The first flick which had this duo composing musi...
Date of Death:
25-05-1998
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
25-05-1998
Age:
86
Gender:
Male
5. Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee is a film director, writer and producer in Bollywood. He is well known for giving a facelift to the career of Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha and Rajesh Khanna.Â
Hrishikesh was born in Calcutta on 30 September 1922. He began his career as an editor and assistant director under Bimal Roy. Much earlier, he was associated with Calcutta’s New Theatres (owned by B.N.Sircar) where he learnt camera techniques and editing part of filmmaking. Later he moved to Mumbai in 1952 and got associated with Bimal Roy and had associated with the editing of classics like ‘Do Bigha Zamin’, ‘Madhumati’ and ‘Devdas’. After working as an assi...
Date of Death:
27-08-2006
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
27-08-2006
Age:
101
Gender:
Male
6. Pran
Pran Krishan Sikand known as Pran was an Indian actor. This legend was born in New Delhi during the British rule. His dad late Kewal Krishan Sikand, who was a Civil Contractor for the Government and had a transferable job. Due to which he did his schooling from various schools in Kapurthala, Unnao, Meerut, Dehradun and Rampur. He was excellent in his academics, especially in Mathematics.
Pran started learning photography from Lahore. He worked with A. Das & Co. in Delhi as an intern so that he would learn professional photography. He got his debut film ‘Yamla Jat’ in the year 1940. During partition, he moved to Mumbai and started his struggle towa...
Date of Death:
12-07-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
12-07-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
7. Ramanand Sagar
Ramanand Sagar is an Indian filmmaker, director, and writer who has made numerous hit films in Bollywood and enthralled the audiences over few decades. But he became a household name by directing the famous TV serial ‘Ramayan’ which had Arun Govil and Deepika in the cast. This TV serial was telecast on Doordarshan and could keep the viewers intact for hours on Sunday afternoon every week. The serial was appreciated even in non-Hindi speaking areas.Â
Ramanand was born in Lahore (Pakistan) on 29 December 1917. He came to Mumbai after Partition and worked as assistant manager in Prithvi Theatres of Prithviraj Kapoor. Earlier, during the era of silent movies, he was based in Punjab and worked as a clapper boy too. Af...
Date of Death:
12-12-2005
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
12-12-2005
Age:
106
Gender:
Male
8. Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi is a renowned Indian playback singer who dominated Bollywood for over three decades where no singer could equal his mighty classical voice or even come closer to him in his voice quality; that was appreciated across the globe. He was at the height of his career when actors like Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor ruled the industry. He was the most sought after singer in the film industry as he gave his vocal for actors like Dev Anand, Raj Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra, and Jeetendra. Although he did playback for actors like Pradeep Kumar, Bharat Bhushan and a comedian like Johnny Walker or Mehmood, his tonal quality suited even Guru Dutt too. That is why Guru Dut...
Date of Death:
31-07-1980
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
Skills:
Date of Death:
31-07-1980
Age:
99
Gender:
Male
9. Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades. Â It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters ( then run by Prithviraj Kapoor). Both were working as music composer for the plays that were staged in the drama company Prithvi Theaters. While Shankar learnt to play Tabla, Jaikishan was expert in Harmonium,Â
Before joining Prithvi Theaters Shankar learnt Tabla from the nuances of Baba Nasir Khansahib and Jai...
Gender:
Male
10. Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who had no formal training in music world. The most easily recalled image of Kishore Kumar that comes in our mind is of his smiling with eyes. He was not just the singer, but a composer, actor and even a script-writer. He is also known for having lent his voice for innumerable hit songs for superstars like Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. At the age of 18, Kishore had set off to Mumbai with a passion for singing. His brother Ashok Kumar was already an established actor and he got a break to sing for Ziddi, which established the leading actor Dev Anand in the industry, but Kishore Kumar did not get any recognition. He acted ...
Date of Death:
13-10-1987
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
13-10-1987
Age:
94
Gender:
Male
11. Mehmood Ali
Mehmood Ali is one of our greatest comedian actors, who had acted in over 300 Hindi films. Born on 29 September 1932, his memorable films include Kunwara Baap, where he acted with versatile actress Manorama from Tamil film. The story had a message on polio vaccination and was essayed on the backdrop of a newly born son who was rescued by Mehmood, and when the boy develops polio, Manorama and Mehmood takes full care to bring up this destitute-cum-polio-affected boy in the film.Â
This was Manorama’s only Hindi film, and the film was directed by Mehmood whose son was also a victim of polio in real life. After acting in small roles in few films like ‘Pyaasa&rs...
Date of Death:
23-07-2004
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-07-2004
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
12. Ashok Kumar - Old
One would be at a loss, wondering where to start when writing about a film legend like Ashok Kumar. After all, he is considered to be one of Indian film industry’s greatest actors, who has performed as the romantic hero, antagonist as well as in various other shades of character roles with equal aplomb. Ashok Kumar really was witness to a very important evolutionary phase of the Indian film industry, and has spread across generations his genius as an actor. From very unpretentious beginnings, having been born as Kumudlal Ganguly in a Bengali family living outside Bengal, he seemed destined to take up a legal profession, having completed his law course from the prestigious...
Date of Death:
10-12-2001
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
10-12-2001
Age:
112
Gender:
Male
13. Yash Chopra
Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the angry young man Amitabh Bachchan and even crafted career of another superstar Shahrukh Khan.
During the early times of his career, Yash Chopra worked as an assistant to the director I.S. Johar and his sibling B.R. Chopra. He got his first break as a director in B.R. Chopra’s film Dhool Ka Phool. It was ...
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
21-10-2012
Age:
91
Gender:
Male
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